bite

the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once

[tarotmoth]

Lather the blood on your hands, Romeo.

[lifeinpoetry]

“Inside my head, the war is everywhere.”

— — Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother

[lifeinpoetry]

And I am trying not to want to be someone else, or myself, but better, which is, in a sense, a kind of death drive, a death wish.

— Cynthia Cruz, from “Refrain,” Hotel Oblivion

[shadowoftheforce]

“The bringer of rain! The slayer of Theokoles! The champion of Capua! Stand up! I present to you: Spartacus!”

[caravaggista]

Marble portrait of the co-emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 AD), detail.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[weltenwellen]

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

[filmgifs]

OSCAR ISAAC as William Tell

THE CARD COUNTER (2021) dir. Paul Schrader

[godsopenwound]

I ask god to send a swordsman / and god says ‘look at your hands’

— Melissa Broder in “Problem Area” from Last Sext

[twinlimbs]

standard bitter love song #4 by the mountain goats

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[themountianquotes]

The Dying Gladiator (1856), Fyodor Bronnikov / Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1, the Mountain Goats

[iwt-v]

Spartacus! Spartacus! Spartacus!

                  1.05 // Shadow Games

[sakura-haruka]

Oscar Isaac as Leto Atreides in DUNE

[sandersstudies]

Characters who are kind but are NOT nice? Impeccable

[facinaoris]

Selected Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva

[facinaoris]

Maison Margiela Fall 2021 Couture 

[lifeinpoetry]

You can’t break me. I am not a believer.

I said, to no one.

— Molly Brodak, from “Mount Yonah,” published in The Volta

[antigonick]

“Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me— and I am demoned by those desires. For this, I move like a wound—always, and fruiting, sweetened by the thorn.”

— Natalie Diaz, excerpt of “I, Minotaur”, in Postcolonial Love Poem